science
Study shows potential for Earth-friendly plastic replacement
The quest to keep plastic out of landfills and simultaneously satisfy the needs of the food industry is filled with obstacles.
A biodegradable replacement for...
New DNA ‘shredder’ technique goes beyond CRISPR’s scissors
In the last six years, a tool called CRISPR-Cas9 has transformed genetic research, allowing scientists to snip and edit DNA strands at precise locations...
Researchers use genomic data to map ‘refugia’ where North American trees...
During the last ice age, which peaked around 21,500 years ago, glaciers covered large portions of North America, including the entire Great Lakes region....
Cold plasma can kill 99.9% of airborne viruses, study shows
Dangerous airborne viruses are rendered harmless on-the-fly when exposed to energetic, charged fragments of air molecules, University of Michigan researchers have shown.
They hope to...
Iron volcanoes may have erupted on metal asteroids
Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in space. As if that's not strange enough, scientists now...
Elements can be solid and liquid at the same time, study...
Scientists have discovered a new state of physical matter in which atoms can exist as both solid and liquid simultaneously.
Until now, the atoms in physical material...
Time-reversal violation may explain abundance of matter over antimatter, physicist says
Why does the observable universe contain virtually no antimatter? Particles of antimatter have the same mass but opposite electrical charge of their matter counterparts....
Beer and fodder crop has been deteriorating for 6,000 years
The diversity of the crop Sorghum, a cereal used to make alcoholic drinks, has been decreasing over time due to agricultural practice. To maintain...
Evolution imposes ‘speed limit’ on recovery after mass extinctions
It takes at least 10 million years for life to fully recover after a mass extinction, a speed limit for the recovery of species...
Is it genetic code or postal code that influence a child’s...
Most children inherit both their postal code and their genetic code from their parents. But if genetic factors influence where families are able to...
Breaking down Beowulf: Statistical technique finds evidence that Old English poem...
It's been a towering landmark in the world of English literature for more than two centuries, but Beowulf is still the subject of fierce...
